They say, "Gee, you look great. " That means they thought you looked like hell before.
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.